on a real note... things are getting a bit scary out there. on the 21st things will happen. As I have thought for a while I think our power grid in the world will be shut down due to a CME from the sun. We just avoided a big one a few days ago. But they have said we will get one in the next year or two. I think it will be next month.

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maladroit- Burning Man is like a second job, except you pay to work there.Burning Man is just the pre party for exodus! - fellow burner during exodus

As gyre pointed out, the FB vid's not playing (perms issue, perhaps). The one we 'just avoided' was large compared to what we've been getting recently, but nowhere near big compared to what we typically get during solar max or have seen several times in all our lifetimes. I'm all for a catastrophic CME screwing with the grid, but at this point in the cycle it's far more likely we'd get a gamma burst from any other direction in space than we'll get something really beefy out of Mr. Sun.

I still think that if the Mayans end up being onto something (as they have been on so many occasions), it would be as a result of an impact from a rogue planet, asteroid/comet, or possibly a gamma burst - those are all things that could have been foretold with precision and accuracy if you had the crazy math and astronomy skills that their ancients possessed or had access to through a visiting advanced civilization. Regardless of how it plays out, it's fascinating stuff.

ok here we go. PS i took off work the 21st. Not risking it lol. I am not sure if i have said it before but one thing i find intesting that the sun and the earth will line up with the center of the galexy. No the earth does this yearly but the sun and the earth is VERY RARE! not to mention the planets alignment. But the Karington Event is more likely to be the 2012 prediction but on a larger scare...earth power outage, knock out the satalites, meaning no air travel..... check out the lower video. I respect this guy quite a bit.

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maladroit- Burning Man is like a second job, except you pay to work there.Burning Man is just the pre party for exodus! - fellow burner during exodus

trilobyte wrote:I still think that if the Mayans end up being onto something (as they have been on so many occasions), it would be as a result of an impact from a rogue planet, asteroid/comet, or possibly a gamma burst - those are all things that could have been foretold with precision and accuracy if you had the crazy math and astronomy skills that their ancients possessed or had access to through a visiting advanced civilization. Regardless of how it plays out, it's fascinating stuff.

So how do yo feel about Percy Fawcett and all the Lost City mythologies?

Among the 2,500 extras DeMille brought with him for three weeks of filming were 250 Orthodox Jews from Los Angeles. Most of them, immigrants from Eastern Europe, didn't speak English. Yet for them, the silent "Ten Commandments" was more than a movie.

"These Jews streamed out of the great gates with tears running down their cheeks, and then without prompting or rehearsal, they began singing in Hebrew the old chants of their race, which have been sung in synagogues for thousands of years," wrote Los Angeles Times reporter Hallett Abend.

According to syndicated Hollywood columnist Jack Jungmeyer, the Jews chanted "Father of Mercy" and "Hear O Israel." He heard one of the older Jews say to a crew member, "We know this script - our fathers studied it long before there were movies. This is the tale of our beginnings. It is deep in our hearts."

An elderly woman, overcome with emotion, fell to her knees and shook a fist at the gates of Pharaoh, weeping and casting sand on her head.